Posts from: January 2014

Following up on our NFC Championship game post 2 weeks ago for the Seahawks, we decided to go a little broader this time and create these two "Road to the Big Game" Power Map tours to show how the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Bronco's made it to Super...

One of our Power BI rockstars, Shish Shridhar ( blog and YouTube channel ), created some great data visualizations for search terms around the Super Bowl. Shish used different tools such as the Bing Ads Intelligence add-in to compare search trends...

Indulge in some harmless video-binging while being awed by the talent in this community of data buffs . The voting period for the Power BI Demo Contest ends soon. So get to it! Watch as many demos as you can, then cast your vote by 5 pm PT today, January...

Last week, Microsoft was at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 in Davos. Among the items on the company’s agenda for the week, Microsoft demonstrated how its technologies, such as Power BI for Office 365, can help the world’s leaders...

Finance leaders today are faced with an interesting challenge. How can they consume and analyze the millions of rows of data that Big Data makes available and present that analysis in a way is easy to understand across multiple audiences? To better...

With the Power BI Demo Contest entry period over and literally dozens of fantastic videos lined up to compete , now is the time for community voting. Data enthusiasts like yourself get to pour over videos and choose the one you like best. Here are...

With the NFL Championship games just around the corner, we wanted to pay tribute to the Seahawks and their long and winding road to the NFC Championship game against the 49ers this Sunday. The following video was created by our team from publicly-available...

We have seen a few instances of customers not able to view their Power View reports. While Power View is part of Power BI, the ability to view Power View reports within Silverlight has actually been available in SharePoint Online for some time. When you...

We’re thrilled to have received dozens of qualified entries in the Power BI Demo Contest . (You can check them out here .) If you’re still building yours, put on those finishing touches and submit it by TODAY, by 5 P.M. Pacific Time . Envision...

One of the interesting additions to the Power Query Preview December update is the ability to import data from Microsoft Exchange. In this blog post, Miguel Llopis (a Program Manager in the Power Query team) will walk us through the capabilities exposed...